Thursday, August 19, 2010

Boring Hawaii

Hawaii is a beautiful place, so it seems inexcusable to create ugly pictures of the islands, but there are lots of them:

The fact that the cars are now considered vintage makes them more interesting, but let's face it, this is a postcard of a parking lot in front of a motel. This postcard is from the Hilo Motel on the Big Island. The one below is from the Maui Palms Hotel.

The last one is a view of Kailua, Kona on the Big Island. There's a lot to see there, but you wouldn't know it from the postcard.

On the one hand, I love it that 20th Century postcard publishers would create postcards of dang near anything -- on the other hand.... I wonder why on earth they needed one of the parking lot of the Hilo Motel. The highway interchanges are some of my favorites in this category.

Trust me, Tony, even by the American standards of the day, some of those chromed-up (Chrysler Imperial and DeSoto, Cadillac, etc., none of them in the photo) cars were regarded as excessive. Four and five liter engines were the norm when Euromobiles hovered around the one liter mark. Jack/Youngstown

A few years ago I was trying to find a least one roadside postcard from every state. I couldn't find anything from Hawaii except for one with a tour bus. I think I will keep looking and maybe find something like the Hilo Motel.

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I love antique postcards because they preserve evidence of everyday life as well as celebrations and sad events. Looking at an old postcard is like holding a single piece of a puzzle; we have to imagine the rest.
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